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As I’m slowly building my art portfolio in the hope of applying for more, and accessing grants and funding — and ultimately creating more pockets of time for art and expression — I’ve been revisiting older works.

This piece i

🥹🌼😍 … collected the other day the tile I made at a pottery painting @potadoirstudios in January …. looooove it 😍🐱

This is the very first, very raw sketch of a new body of work called “Resting Without Guilt”.

And I’ve come to believe the most interesting thing an artist can share is not the perfectly finished piece —
but the path.
The way

Growing up in Germany, I heard it everywhere:

“Just do your best.”

But “your best” often meant:
overperform.
overcommit.
overgive.
stretch yourself thin.
be impressive.
be exceptional.
be tireless.
Especially as a woman.
We

✨ Jenna and the Cranberries

Sketch No. 2 from the visual diary that is slowly becoming my portfolio.

In the heart of a rainy Irish winter evening in 2020, I sat across from Jenna the cat at Glebe House, the fire crackling, a chorus of women on RT&E

… speaking of cats …

Me at the pottery painting 🖌️
A cat with a moustache.
A bowl that says “it’s happening.”
Because… it is.
The energy of “it’s happening” is wild and gentle at the same time.
It’s not hustle. It’s

Seafood 🐟 menu board writing for @potduggans

☀️

Finally reading 📖 “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron … A spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. ✨

Has anyone read it? What’s your take? how did you like it?

#theartistsway #juliacamerontheartistsway #juliacameron

A few new slate writings for the Burren Perfumery today… ✍🏼 🌺

Perfumery summer menu ready ✍🏼 on the board 🙌

#signwriting #signwriter #menu #menuboard

…Together with the Burren Perfumery Staff, where I work part time as a cream and soapmaker, I went to Grasse earlier this week. Here are a mix of photo-impressions that happened during these truly fulfilling days at the perfumers capital of th

💛 yesterday, to my 31 birthday 🎂, I got this wonderful book as a present 😌 about the work of Harry Clarke 😍🤌

#harryclarkestainedglass #harryclarke

🙋🏼&zwj;♀️🙆🏼&zwj;♀️ More lavender drawings 💜💆&zwj;♀️🟣🪻fine-line-pens on paper

Sweet Orange 🍊 Drawings

#sweetorange #sweetorangeessentialoil #orange #orangedrawing

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